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For playwright Larissa FastHorse, staging her newest play, Fake It Until You Make It, has not been without its challenges. The Sicangu Lakota writer, who is mounting the production in Los Angeles ...

Republicans just blocked Democrats from trying to force Elon Musk to testify about how he’s destroying the government.

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

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A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments over a longer-term pause of the directive.

A federal judge in Maryland has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Trump's executive order aimed at ...

The preliminary injunction is the second temporary hold against Trump’s executive order and puts efforts to end birthright ...